Hey everyone! Another week flown by in Kazakhstan, I can't believe how fast time moves! This week has been crazy-like every week of course! No time to really stop and think and a lot of work and preparation coming up for the baptisms this Saturday!
This week Elder Nut and I saw a lot of blessings from the Lord. We went from two strong gospel investigators and no potential gospel investigators and now we are at three strong gospel investigators and five really strong potential gospel investigators! It has been a crazy week! This weekend is also Zone Conference in Kazakhstan and this past week the AP's have been down here helping us out with a few things. We have been really busy and I have had a lot of really spiritual experiences but I want to tell about two of them really quickly...
This first happened last friday- I think. With an investigator named Zershot... that is a woman ps... Well a few weeks ago we had an English lesson with her and we asked her a few questions and stuff and it led into her telling us about how whenever she is around us she can see some light in our eyes or somethings like that and has a really good and warm feeling when she is around us. So, of course that is always a good thing so this last lesson we invited Sister Moore, the Sister from the Elderly couple here, and she helped us to teach a really strong first lesson. Zershot speaks perfect english and Sister Moore only speaks English so we were able to have the whole lesson in English without a problem. It was such a strong a powerful lesson the Spirit was SOO strong! Basically everyone was bawling at the end of the lesson.. but unfortunately Zershot just kept talking about how she is muslim. Her whole family is Muslim and she feels like if she just instantly accepted and joined our church then she would be betraying her religion, family, and God. So, though I know she has had a powerful witness she still needs some time before she will have a personal prayer to see if what we teach her is true. She is amazing and she still wants to keep meeting with us she just needs a little bit more time...
The next thing happened two days ago. I was on splits with one of the APs and he was teaching me a lot. We were contacting and it was my turn to talk to someone so I stopped this guy and started talking to him. I realized he spoke English so I asked him about that and stuff. He said that he lived in California for six years with his wife and her family. Then he said, "You guys are Mormon missionaries aren't you?" And that's how we found out that this guy married his wife and went to live in California with her and her family and her whole family are members of the church and they even have missionaries out on missions right now. He even said that he has read the Book of Mormon. But, he is not a member. He seemed like a really spiritual and kind guy and just said that he is Russian so he is Russian Orthodox. But, he was really open to conversation and we were able to tell him how unique and what a blessing it was from God that we met him on the street and he agreed. So now we are going to meet with him and see what we can do to help him.. that was an amazing blessing from the Lord! Out of anyone to find on the street we run into a man who has a wife whose whole family are strong members of the church! AMAZING!
We have found a lot of really amazing people because we have worked hard! This week has been an amazing example of working hard! Well my leg got a lot worse this past week and the doctors and my Mission President have confined me to a couch with my leg elevated and heated all day long to try and control the swelling. But, it is getting smaller and I hope soon that I will be out working hard again! :) The doctors still don't know what is wrong with it.
This weekend is Zone Conference and so it is going to be an even more amazing weekend with baptisms and all that fun stuff. Unfortunately Elder Nutt and I still are not going to have a baptism because we could not teach the last to lessons to one of our investigators in time, but we will have one with him very soon! Oh and tonight President Wooley is going to be here and he is having dinner with members who don't speak English and since I will be bed ridden anyways so I have to translate for him... we will see how that goes....
Well I hope everything at home is going great! Iove you all very much and thank you for all of the love and support! REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!
ELDER WEIHING
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